General & World History

This second volume of the authors studies opens with a new survey of the recent historiography of Dubrovnik, and also contains four items specially...

This volume covers the first one hundred years of the Royal Society for Asian Affairs, formerly the Royal Central Asian Society. It traces its fons...

The doctrinal and structural revolution currently underway in the Roman Catholic Church is alarming for several reasons, not least because of the a...

Throughout human history luxury textiles have been used as a marker of importance, power and distinction. Yet, as the essays in this collection mak...

Now thoroughly updated and revisedwith a new chapter on the Dreamer movement and the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program (DACA)this book...

First published in 1999, this volume is an ambitious attempt to provide a wide-ranging introduction to local government in the overseas empires of ...

This title was first published in 2000. The nineteenth century saw the emergence of numerous artistic brotherhoods - groups of artists bound togeth...

This book is a study of Islamic architecture in Anatolia following the Mongol conquest in 1243. Complex shifts in rule, movements of population, an...

From the origins of drinking to the use and abuse of alcohol in the present day, this global historical study draws on approaches and research from...

In this compelling narrative of capitalist development and revolutionary response, Jessica M. Kim reexamines the rise of Los Angeles from a small t...

This book explores the close relationships between three of the most famous twentieth-century African Americans, W. E. B. Du Bois, Paul Robeson, an...

In Approaching Historical Sources in Their Contexts, 12 academics examine how space, time and performance interact to co-create context for source ...

A key volume on a central aspect of the history of medicine and its social relations, The History of Healthcare in Public and Private examines how ...

Assessing the grand American evangelical missionary venture to convert the world, this international group of leading scholars reveals how theologi...

This is a history of precious-metals extractivism as lived in Cerro de San Pedro, a small gold- and silver-mining district in Mexico. Chronicling C...

This book analyzes violence involving Catholics in the nineteenth-century world revealing the motives for violence, showing the link between relig...

This book examines key aspects of the Asia Pacific War (19311945), that was initially waged between Japan and China, before Japans attack on Pearl ...

Based on research conducted in archives in six countries, An International History of South America in the Era of Military Rule: Geared for War off...